>Oh you kids today...always thinking that all anybody wants is sex. I >already AM a feminist (and a Camille Paglia feminist at that) and >have been one for the past twelve years (which was when I started >taking women's studies courses) or my whole life, however you >choose to look at it. So a fellow feminist advertises the only criteria she needs to consider marrying a man and i bite at the bait. Have we all lost our sense of humor? We've already taken it backchannel anyway. who said anything about sex? besides, there is is nothing anti-feminist about trying to get a date with one - quite the opposite, actually. to know someone's views and THEN be interested instead of the opposite is quite cool. if it seemed i thought otherwise, i'm sorry - that's not what i meant at all. >I thought this old war-horse of an argument was finally dead. Most >feminists worth their salt agree that pornography doesn't cause >rape or sexual harassment; it causes masturbation, be it >heterosexual, homosexual, male or female pornography. have you ever read any of andrea dworkin's work? she wrote an essay called 'letter from a war zone' which is from a collection of her essays called 'letters from a war zone'. anyway, this essay is pretty interesting. it's about the connections between pornography and rape. i thought it was quite powerful, but i'd like to get other (probably dissenting opinions). it's always good to get a variety of perceptions.